"Political life of Clint Eastwood American actor and director Clint Eastwood has long shown an interest in politics. He won election as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in April 1986 and in 2001, Governor Gray Davis appointed the Oscar-winner to the California State Park and Recreation Commission. Eastwood endorsed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election and delivered a prime time address at the 2012 Republican National Convention, where he delivered a speech addressed to an empty chair representing Barack Obama. During a screening of his 1992 film ""Unforgiven"" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2017, as"
"Miloš Forman and Francis Ford Coppola) to have directed two Best Picture winners. At the age of 74, he was the oldest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director to date. Eastwood has directed five actors in Academy Award–winning performances: Gene Hackman in ""Unforgiven"", Tim Robbins and Sean Penn in ""Mystic River"", and Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank in ""Million Dollar Baby"". On August 22, 1984, Eastwood was honored at a ceremony at Grauman's Chinese theater to record his hand and footprints in cement. Eastwood received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996, and received an honorary degree from"
"Gene Hackman Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in ""The French Connection"" and Best Supporting Actor in ""Unforgiven"". He won four Golden Globes, one SAG Award and two BAFTAs. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in ""Bonnie and Clyde"", when he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His major subsequent films include: ""I Never Sang for My Father"" (1970), when he received his"
"The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, (including Best Actor for Eastwood and Best Original Screenplay for David Webb Peoples) and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. In June 2008 ""Unforgiven"" was ranked as the fourth-best American western, behind ""Shane"", ""High Noon"", and ""The Searchers"", in the American Film Institute's ""AFI's 10 Top 10"" list. Eastwood played Frank Horrigan in the Secret Service thriller ""In the Line of Fire"" (1993), directed by Wolfgang Petersen and co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo. Horrigan is a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to save John"
"""Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism—on all those burdens he has been carrying with such grace for decades."" Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert criticized the work, though the latter gave it a positive vote, for being too long and having too many superfluous characters (such as Harris' English Bob, who enters and leaves without meeting the protagonists). Despite his initial reservations, Ebert eventually included the film in his ""The Great Movies"" list. ""Unforgiven"" was released on Blu-ray Book (a Blu-ray Disc with book packaging) on February 21, 2012. Special features include an audio commentary by the Clint Eastwood biographer,"
"during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Sharon Stone. ""Unforgiven"" won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman. Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for ""Scent of a Woman"" and ""Howards End"", respectively. Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for ""My Cousin Vinny"". The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 65th Academy Awards were announced on February 17, 1993, at the Samuel"
"Power"", alongside Gene Hackman (with whom he had appeared in ""Unforgiven""). Eastwood played the role of a veteran thief who witnesses the Secret Service cover-up of a murder. The film received a mixed reception from critics. Later in 1997, Eastwood directed ""Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"", based on the novel by John Berendt and starring John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law. The film met with a mixed critical response. Eastwood directed and starred in ""True Crime"" (1999). He plays Steve Everett, a journalist and recovering alcoholic, who has to cover the execution of murderer Frank Beechum"
"""Unforgiven"" 1. Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)<br> 2. ""The Match Factory Girl"" (""Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö"")<br> 3. ""The Best Intentions"" (""Den goda viljan"") 1. American Dream<br> 2. ""Brother's Keeper""<br> 3. ""A Brief History of Time"" 1992 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 27th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1993, honored the best filmmaking of 1992. 1. Unforgiven<br> 2. ""The Crying Game""<br> 3. ""The Player"" 1. Clint Eastwood – ""Unforgiven""<br> 2. Robert Altman – ""The Player""<br> 3. Neil Jordan – ""The Crying Game"" 1. Stephen Rea – ""The Crying Game""<br> 2."
"rating based on 95 reviews, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The website's critical consensus states, ""As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence."" Metacritic gave the film a score of 85 out of 100 based on 33 critical reviews, indicating ""universal acclaim"". Jack Methews of the ""Los Angeles Times"" described ""Unforgiven"" as ""The finest classical western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 ""The Searchers""."" Richard Corliss in ""Time"" wrote that the film was"
"Stan Edmonds Stan Edmonds (born December 24, 1960) has been a motion picture makeup artist for over 30 years. He has over 50 film and television credits and has served as head of department on such films as ""I, Robot"", ""The Butterfly Effect"", ""The Five People You Meet in Heaven"", ""Scary Movie"", and Clint Eastwood's Academy Award–winning film ""Unforgiven"". Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Edmonds has worked across Canada and the United States and has worked with well-known actors, like Sylvester Stallone, Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston and Ashton Kutcher. He currently teaches makeup for film and television at the Vancouver Film"
"""Unforgiven"", a film in which he directed and starred as an aging ex-gunfighter long past his prime. Scripts existed for the film as early as 1976 under titles such as ""The Cut-Whore Killings"" and ""The William Munny Killings"" but Eastwood delayed the project because he wanted to wait until he was old enough to play his character and to savor it as the last of his western films. ""Unforgiven"" was a major commercial and critical success; Jack Methews of the ""Los Angeles Times"" described it as ""the finest classical western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 ""The Searchers""."
"poster, for example, shows him with a gun, suggesting an action movie, but the only action consists of a few seconds of flashback to Eastwood's character in battle before being wounded. Sofia Coppola wrote and directed a film based on the same source material with Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017. The film was released by Focus Features on June 23, 2017. The Beguiled (1971 film) The Beguiled is a 1971 American Southern Gothic, thriller-drama film directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and"
"Writers of America for the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture. Under Suspicion (2000 film) Under Suspicion is a 2000 American-French thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci and Thomas Jane. The film is based on the 1981 French film ""Garde à vue"" and the 1970s British novel ""Brainwash"", written by John Wainwright. It was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Wealthy tax attorney Henry Hearst (Hackman) is about to give a speech at an exclusive New Year's Eve fundraising party in Puerto Rico. He is called to"
"and Best Film Editing for editor Joel Cox. Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for ""Scent of a Woman"". The film was the third Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture, following ""Cimarron"" (1931) and ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990). Eastwood dedicated the film to directors and mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. In 2004, ""Unforgiven"" was added to the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In 1881 in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, two cowboys, Quick"
"(1970), ""The Eighth Sacrament"" (1977), and ""The Bedeviled"" (1978)—as well as several plays, which are still produced. He received a Ford Foundation grant to represent the United States at a literary colloquium in Berlin in 1964, and he wrote a weekly television program in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, both for WKYC, a local television affiliate, and for Case Western Reserve University. ""The Beguiled"" was twice made into a film: in 1971, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and in 2017, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning. Cullinan died of a"
"Frankenstein Unbound Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 science fiction horror film movie based on Brian Aldiss' novel of the same name, starring John Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, and Nick Brimble. The film is co-written and directed by Roger Corman, returning to the director's chair after a hiatus of almost twenty years. This is his final directorial effort to date, for which he was paid $1 million to direct. In 2031, Dr. Buchanan and his team work to develop the ultimate weapon, an energy beam that will completely remove whatever it is aimed at. Buchanan hopes he can"
"""Stranger than Paradise"" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), ""Blue Velvet"" (David Lynch, 1986), ""The Civil War"" (Ken Burns, 1990), ""The Crying Game"" (Neil Jordan, 1992), ""Mulholland Drive"" (David Lynch, 2001), ""Brokeback Mountain"" (Ang Lee, 2005), ""The Imitation Game"" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), ""Sully"" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), ""Moonlight"" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and ""Lady Bird"" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine ""Positif"", Ted Turner, and Janus Films. Each"
"Alcatraz"" marks the fifth and final collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, following ""Coogan's Bluff"" (1968), ""Two Mules for Sister Sara"" (1970), ""The Beguiled"" (1971) and ""Dirty Harry"" (1971). On January 18, 1960, Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) arrives at the maximum security prison Alcatraz. Soon after arriving, he is sent in to meet the warden (Patrick McGoohan), who curtly informs him that no inmate has ever successfully escaped from Alcatraz. Among the inmates, Morris makes acquaintances with the eccentric Litmus, (Frank Ronzio) who is fond of desserts, English (Paul Benjamin), a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white"
"two people."" In 2016 he narrated the Smithsonian Channel documentary ""The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima."" Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: ""Wake of the Perdido Star"" (1999), a sea adventure of the 19th century; ""Justice for None"" (2004), a Depression-era tale of murder; and ""Escape from Andersonville"" (2008) about a prison escape during the American Civil War. His first solo effort, a story of love and revenge set in the Old West titled ""Payback at Morning Peak"", was released in 2011. A police thriller, ""Pursuit"", followed in 2013. In 2011 he"
"has received Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and People's Choice Awards, among others. Eastwood is one of only two people to have been twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film (""Unforgiven"" and ""Million Dollar Baby"") the other being Warren Beatty (""Heaven Can Wait"" and ""Reds""). Along with Beatty, Robert Redford, Richard Attenborough, Kevin Costner, and Mel Gibson, he is one of the few directors best known as an actor to win an Academy Award for directing. On February 27, 2005, he became one of only three living directors (along with"
"Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe. Caan's subsequent notable performances include roles in ""Thief"" (1981), ""Misery"" (1990), ""For the Boys"" (1991), ""Eraser"" (1996), ""Bottle Rocket"" (1996) and ""Elf"" (2003), as well as the role of ""Big Ed"" Deline in the television series ""Las Vegas"" (2003–08). He also prominently lent his voice to ""Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"" (2009) and ""Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2"" (2013) as Tim Lockwood, father of Bill Hader's protagonist Flint Lockwood. For his contributions to the film industry, Caan was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978 with a"
"and Jennifer Love Hewitt. He had a small part as Arnold Margolese in Gore Verbinski's ""The Mexican"". He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film ""The Royal Tenenbaums"" and in yet another Grisham legal drama, ""Runaway Jury"", at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman. Hackman's final film to date was ""Welcome to Mooseport"" (2004), a comedy with Ray Romano, when he portrayed a former President of the United States. In 2003 at the Golden Globes, Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille"
"Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture for ""Letters from Iwo Jima"". In 2008, Eastwood directed ""Changeling"", based on a true story, starring Angelina Jolie. In 2009, Eastwood directed ""Invictus"", with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar. John Carlin, author of the book on which the film is based, sold the film rights to Freeman. Then in 2011, Clint Eastwood collaborated with Brad Paisley to make the song ""Eastwood"". Clint Eastwood in the 2000s In 2000, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in ""Space Cowboys"" as Frank Corvin, a retired NASA engineer"
"on the science fiction television show ""Black Scorpion"". He played Archbishop Kurtwell (a Catholic prelate accused of child sexual abuse) in the HBO drama ""The Young Pope"". Also starred in Past Midnight,as Guy Canape. Guy Boyd (actor) Guy Boyd (born April 15, 1943) is an American character actor. Boyd has starred in more than fifty films from the late 1970s to the present. He is probably best known for his role as Detective Jim McLean in ""Body Double"" (1984) and for the pivotal role of Frank Hackman on several episodes of ""Miami Vice"". In 1984, he was honored at the"
"with the consensus: ""This tense, paranoid thriller presents Francis Ford Coppola at his finest—and makes some remarkably advanced arguments about technology's role in society that still resonate today."" Roger Ebert's contemporary review gave ""The Conversation"" four out of four stars, and described Hackman's portrayal of Caul as ""one of the most affecting and tragic characters in the movies."" In 2001, Ebert added ""The Conversation"" to his ""Great Movies"" list, describing Hackman's performance as a ""career peak"" and writing that the film ""comes from another time and place than today's thrillers, which are so often simple-minded."" In 1995, ""The Conversation"" was"
"three Golden Globe nominations, along with several Emmy nominations including Outstanding Miniseries, and acting nominations for Dunst, Plemons, Smart, and Bokeem Woodbine. The third season, set in 2010 and starring Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Goran Bogdan, and David Thewlis, premiered on April 19, 2017. It was met with positive reviews from critics, and received Emmy nominations including Outstanding Miniseries, and acting nominations for McGregor, Coon, and Thewlis. It received three Golden Globe nominations, for Outstanding Limited Series, and McGregor and Thewlis for acting, with McGregor winning in his category. A fourth season is currently in development, to"
"he named it for Kathlyn (whose nickname was ""Tat"") and Ira. At age 29, Beatty produced and acted in ""Bonnie and Clyde"", which would be released in 1967. He assembled a team that included the writers Robert Benton and David Newman, and the director, Arthur Penn. Beatty selected most of the cast, including Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder and Michael J. Pollard. Beatty also oversaw the script and spearheaded the delivery of the film. Gene Hackman was chosen because Beatty had acted with him in ""Lilith"" in 1964 and felt he was a ""great"" actor. Upon completion"
"funny."" This feature was filmed in Italy. Frankenstein Unbound Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 science fiction horror film movie based on Brian Aldiss' novel of the same name, starring John Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, and Nick Brimble. The film is co-written and directed by Roger Corman, returning to the director's chair after a hiatus of almost twenty years. This is his final directorial effort to date, for which he was paid $1 million to direct. In 2031, Dr. Buchanan and his team work to develop the ultimate weapon, an energy beam that will completely remove whatever it"
"The film earned a total domestic box office gross of $50,068,310, barely recouping its $50 million budget. The soundtrack to ""Absolute Power"" was released on March 11, 1997. Absolute Power (film) Absolute Power is a 1997 American political thriller film produced by, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel ""Absolute Power"" by David Baldacci. Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, the film also stars Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott"
"it has attracted viewers and significant critical attention following its videotape and DVD releases. In 2010, Manohla Dargis described it as ""the great, despairing ""Night Moves"" (1975), with Gene Hackman as a private detective who ends up circling the abyss, a no-exit comment on the post-1968, post-Watergate times."" Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a retired professional football player now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. He discovers that his wife Ellen (Susan Clark) is having an affair with a man named Marty Heller (Harris Yulin). Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her 16-year-old daughter"
"""Atonement"" – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer ""'2008: ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" – Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo ""'2009: ""Avatar"" – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, and Kim Sinclair 2010: ""Inception"" – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, and Doug Mowat 2011: ""Hugo"" – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo 2012: ""Les Misérables"" – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson 2013: ""The Great Gatsby"" – Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn 2014: ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock 2015: """" – Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson 2016: ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" – Stuart"
"an appearance on the series ""Jack and Mike"" in 1986. At the age of 17, he landed a role in the movie ""Men Don't Leave"", with Jessica Lange. In the early 1990s, he was in many successful movies including ""Fried Green Tomatoes"" (1991), ""School Ties"" (1992) and ""Scent of a Woman"" (1992) with Al Pacino (receiving a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he lost to Gene Hackman for ""Unforgiven""). He was named one of the 12 Promising New Actors of 1992 in John Willis's ""Screen World"", Vol. 44. After the success of ""Blue Sky"""
"In 1996 he took a comedic turn as conservative Senator Kevin Keeley in ""The Birdcage"" with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane. He also co-starred with Will Smith in the 1998 film ""Enemy of the State"", where his character was reminiscent of the one from ""The Conversation"". He played a U.S. president who is responsible for a killing in 1997's "" Absolute Power"", re-teaming with director-star Clint Eastwood. Hackman starred in the David Mamet crime film ""Heist"", as an aging professional thief of considerable skill who is forced into one final job and the comedy ""Heartbreakers"" alongside Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta"